Indonesian protesters torch US flag

Indonesians continue to protest an anti-Islam film, torching an American flag and tyres outside the US consulate in the country's third largest city of Medan.

About 200 people from various Islamic groups gathered on Tuesday.

Some unfurled banners saying, "Go to Hell America," while others trampled on dozens of paper flags in North Sumatra's provincial capital.

They demanded Washington punish those involved in the privately produced, American-made film Innocence of Muslims, which ridicules Islam and depicts the Prophet Mohammed as a fraud, a womaniser and a pedophile.

On Monday, violence erupted outside the US embassy in Jakarta when hundreds of protesters mostly from hardliner Islamic groups gathered.

Some hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails in the first violent demonstrations over the film in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.